Basic Figurative Devices

Another name for figures of speech is

• Drama

• Dialect

• Patois

• Figurative Language

This figure of speech compares and uses 'as' or 'like'

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

This device repeats the consonant letters at the beginning of a series of words in a very descriptive expression.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

The device in which one thing is called another thing is...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

This is a device that presents words as the actual sound made.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

To show animals or things engaged in human behaviour(s) or doing human actions is using...

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Which expression is using ONOMATOPOEIA?

• ‘The flood water gushed, splashed and swished through the gully'

• ‘This City no doth, like a garment, wear’

• ‘Lightening jumped and hit against the tree.’

• ‘Life is a barren field frozen with snow’

Which figurative device is the phrase: ‘Life is a barren field ’ ?

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

‘This City is like a garment we often wear’ is a _____ device.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

How are the TWO of the basic devices presented in this poem?

THE SEA POEM by James Reeves

The sea is a hungry dog,

Giant and grey.

He rolls on the beach all day.

With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws

Hour upon hour he gnaws

The rumbling, tumbling stones,

And 'Bones, bones, bones, bones! '

The giant sea-dog moans,

Licking his greasy paws.

(From Poem Hunter)

• personification then onomatopoeia

• metaphor then onomatopoeia,

• alliteration then simile

• simile then metaphor